🎶”Try that in a Latin Mass – See how far you make it down the aisle…” 🎶

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1. Simon_GNR says:

   13 December 2023 at 2:28 PM

   Leaving before the final prayer. Yes, I’ve seen that a few times at NO Mass.
   Ironically, at some Extraordinary Form Masses, after we are told “Ite. Missa Est”, we don’t get to “ite” until after we’ve had the Last Gospel, the Salve Regina and the Leonine Prayers, and maybe a final hymn too.
2. FatherAnd says:

   13 December 2023 at 5:49 PM

   And don’t forget about Trent Horn’s wife’s, ah, rendition.

   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4nY67b_f4
3. Venerator Sti Lot says:

   13 December 2023 at 7:06 PM

   Thank you! I see that someone in her comments recommends Laura Horn, too – to which Ipsitilla replies “I just saw it – it’s great! Thanks for the suggestion.” Indeed! – distinct and complementary (though Laura Horn has some hair-raising abuse clips).

   I sometimes see people leave at various points – including, I think, at the point catechumens are called upon to depart in the Byzantine liturgy… someone told me some of them are Sedevacantists (?).
4. Imrahil says:

   14 December 2023 at 12:46 PM

   Leaving before the final prayer.

   I regret to say it, but that is also a nice case of “Judge not”.

   I left once in a Mass (yes, it was Novus Ordo, but I would have done the same in the Vetus Ordo) immediately after the celebrant had Communicated.

   Why? It was a Sunday, I had been to (VO) Mass in the morning (yes… too late but that is a separate issue); had done a little pilgrimage in the afternoon because it was the 30 days of our Lady (that is, August 15 till September 15), then stayed for Mass out of piety and because it was Sunday and because I had done a pilgrimage and because I wanted to hear the sermon (which would be on our Lady and her 30 days, not so much the Sunday texts, and if them the NO Sunday texts).

   But I had tickets for a concert that same evening and needed to go. Being a trad I knew when the essential parts of the Holy Sacrifice were done, which include the celebrant’s communion, so I really tried and succeeded to stay long enough for that. Then I added a little prayer for spiritual communion (I think I did, anyway I should have), made a double-genuflection because at this time the Blessed Sacrament is exposed (I do remember that), and off I was.

   Was that wrong? No, it was not.

   “But how probable is it that our neighbor whom we see leave early has already been to Mass that day, or is still going this day, or is otherwise excused, etc.?” Well, you’re not supposed to ask how probable it is. If you’re pondering the thing at all, the question you’re supposed to ask is whether there’s a tiny chance of it being possible. Perhaps even otherwise, but certainly once the answer to that is “yes”, or is “well yes but”…: then the way to go is “leave the rest to God, the person herself, and their spiritual director or confessor”.

   Sorry.
5. Ipsitilla says:

   14 December 2023 at 5:51 PM

   Thanks for the comments – regarding the line about leaving before the final prayer, context obviously matters, and that verse referred broadly to people taking an excessively casual attitude toward Mass attendance in general, not to render judgment about individual cases. It’s a good reminder that we shouldn’t judge individual people without knowing their situation, though.

   Laura Horn and I posted our parodies independently within a few days of each other – the Jason Aldean song was all over the radio (and the news) so it seemed timely.

   Thanks to Fr. Z for sharing it!

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